On the scheme dependence of the Electroweak radiative corrections

Abstract

We study the scheme dependence of the two-loop expression for the $\rho$-parameter of the Standard Model in the heavy $t$-quark mass limit $m_{t} \gg m_{w}$. In the $\ms$-scheme the two-loop electroweak correction to the ${\cal O}(m_{t}^{2})$ term in $\dr$ is found greater than the QCD $\as$-correction.